![]() ![]() Shock, horror, the old rules might not work any more! The rule went like this: if you could keep your young women (daughters, sisters, wives) separated from the males of the species, their virtue might be preserved, their hormones kept in check. But AD 1950 puts us back in the Age of Sapphoparanoia (all right, I made that word up). It might even explain how she could write so sensitively about "lurv". ![]() What if we learned that a popular author of romantic fiction was bisexual? - these days it would be no big deal. And yet actress Gertrude Lawrence died only 60 years ago. A planet where the very word that begins with L can be "hateful". The first thing that an inhabitant of this blessed year 2012 notices about the BBC dramatisation "Daphne" is that it appears to be happening on some other planet. Contrary to what you may have heard, the world is becoming a better place, more understanding, more tolerant. ![]()
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